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w w w .i n si d eH A LT O N .c o m O A K V IL LE B EA V ER Fr id ay , A ug us t 26 , 2 01 1 1 0 The Towns Parks and Open Space crews were out until about 3 a.m. An on- duty supervisor and two arborists with a bucket truck and chipper truck were out to deal with immediate safety concerns, including a few trees down over roads and driveways. The Town did not report any major damage. The Towns Parks and Open Space Forestry crews did additional clean up on Thursday. There were also a few instances of power outages in the town. The system actually performed extremely well last night considering the storm that went through, said Mike Brown, vice-president, engineering oper- ations, of Oakville Hydro. We had minor outages. There were two outages, one for four minutes and the other for nine, in small, localized areas during the night, Brown said. Two small transformers were damaged due to lightning. Those were replaced in the night. Brown added, three homes lost service due to downed tree branches. More people would have experienced momentary loss of electricity during the night as well. Our system will create an auto- reclose, he said of why power goes out for short moments. It will disconnect for a second to ensure that if theres a branch on a power line, it will discon- nect. Then it will reconnect to see if it can be restored because the branch has fallen off. We had several of those during the evening, which people would have experienced a momentary flicker or out- age. Continued from page 1 JOHN LARSEN / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER LIGHT SHOW: While Oakville escaped major damage from the thunderstorm that rolled through southern Ontario Wednesday night, residents were treated to a spectacular light show including this lightning bolt as seen from Bronte Harbour. Oakville spared serious storm damage 905.844.7600 85 Navy Street, Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6J 2Z2 Appointments recommended www.canadiansound.com Smart Whole Home Solutions from Canadian Sound exclusive dealers of Control your home with MyHome Now its easy to control virtually anything in the home from any screen.